- As the team works to free Nate from jail, he must take on a corrupt warden and free an innocent man.
- Nate outwitted Sterling and got slapped across the face and a ticket to the "Rockford" Private Correctional Facility. A kielbasa of peace is extended ...but the team is still angry at Nate for refusing to be part of his exfil. Nate finds them a new client inside: Billy Epping (Edwin Hodge.) Private prisons are like hotels; they live and die on occupancy. The prison owner CEO, Adam Worth IV, is stocked with low security inmates. As the team runs their con on Worth, Nate senses bribery and a fine Italian hand in the con's background. Worth is a corrupt millionaire and Nate stings corrupt millionaires---Nate wondered if the convenient "pairing" was an accident. Lt. Pat Bonanno, still recovering from his wounds, is the big hero.—LA-Lawyer
- In order to save the life of an innocent inmate, Nate must bring down the corrupt warden of the Super-Max prison where he's currently incarcerated and escape... whether he wants to or not.—TNT Publicity
- We re-meet the team of thieves as they're on a job in a federal building. Hardison washes floors as he rigs the security cameras to play old footage and locks down an elevator for Parker, who's waiting in the shaft. We see what the job is: Nate is led out of a court room in an orange jump suit and shackles.
Parker rappels down the elevator shaft, drops into the box, takes out the two guards and frees Nate.
Outside, Eliot takes out two FBI guys, and the team quickly regroups in a car and drives around front to pick up Nate. But he won't get in. "No," he says.
Cut to Nate in the Rockford Private Correctional Facility, telling Sophie "No," the plan won't work -- they can't all get to the car that fast. Hardison is looping in a telenovela to the prison's recording system so they can talk freely. From Nate's apartment, the rest of the team talks to Nate through the prison phone, telling him they want to bust him out. But he tells them not to.
Sophie leaves him a kielbasa with an earbud in it and tells Nate she's now going by her real name. She won't say what it is.
An Italian man translates for a sultry woman [Elisabetta Canalis] as she tells the prison CEO he has to cooperate and give her all their info on Nate Ford.
Back inside, a nice young inmate named Billy gets Nate the book he asked for. Nate sees two thugs follow Billy into a hallway and alerts the guard, who doesn't care.
Nate helps Billy get away from his attackers, and they go to the walk-in freezer to talk. Billy says he found those guy's friend dead last week, and they think he killed him. But he didn't and isn't even sure why he's in prison. He says he got busted for driving across State lines with beer in his trunk. He didn't have a lawyer for the hearing and thought he was just going to pay a fine but got sent away for eight months. He's an accountant.
Nate's heard enough--he rips open the kielbasa and puts in the earbud.
He asks Hardison to look into Billy's records. He was telling the truth. The warden was consulted on the sentencing.
Nate tells Billy he's going to help him, apologizes to Billy, and shivs him gently.
Adam Worth, the CEO of National Prison Properties talks to Hardison, who does a British accent and bugs his office. Worth brags about prison labor making $2 billion a year.
In the infirmary, Eliot comes to visit as a doctor. Nate tells Billy the infirmary is the safest place for him now. Nate fakes a toothache so he and Eliot can talk alone. Eliot pulls up info on Adam Worth, the CEO. His family is all in politics. Eliot says there's no way to get Billy out of the prison.
Cut to Sophie and Parker getting into the chambers of Judge Malvoy, who sent Billy away. They find he opened a safety deposit box when he started sending tons of cons to Rockford PCF. Hardison says the prison must maintain seventy percent occupancy to keep getting State funding, which they almost lost two years ago.
They're picking people who trust the system so much that they won't fight back.
Nate has a plan.
Sophie walks up to Adam Worth on the street and gives him her card, saying she's going to make him a Senator. Sophie takes Adam Worth to a campaign office and pitches him to run.
Back in the hospital, Eliot earbud-chats with Nate, telling him the convict that Billy found dead was in a camera blind spot, and so was the place Billy was jumped. They can't access the plans for the blind spots so Nate and Eliot walk through the prison calling out motion sensors, video cameras and automatic lockdowns as the team updates them at HQ on the blue prints.
Sophie tells Adam Worth he needs to transfer $250,000 of his money into a campaign account to get started. He agrees--just as soon as she deposits matching funds first.
Back at HQ, they try to figure out a way out of the prison.
Leaving the prison, Adam Worth tells a guard they have to clean up their operation because he's running for office. The guard says Billy is the only loose end. Worth says they'll turn off the cameras tomorrow and kill Billy. The next day, the guards arm-up and head for Billy.
Hardison meets with Adam Worth again in his office, but Worth gets a call from the Italian chick. She tells him to look at Nate's visitor's log. When Worth leaves the room, Hardison gets on the computer and sees that the system is down.
It's go time.
Adam Worth looks at the security footage and sees Sophie with Nate and knows he's been had. Nate opens up the boilers in the kitchen, Eliot protects Billy from the guards and Nate comes for him. The guards call lock-down. Nate and Billy get through a door because Nate put folded up newspaper in the lock.
Worth calls to cancel his account--but gets Sophie. She tells him he has to go to the bank to do it. He rushes out of the room with Hardison, who reminds him to grab his dry-cleaning as he goes. Steam has filled the laundry, and Nate is able to walk past the motion-sensor and into the walk-in freezer. In the freezer, Nate grabs a plastic bag and put it over him. Ice develops on it and he is able to get through the heat sensors in the ventilation tunnel.
Worth gets in his car and leaves. The guards check security footage and see a helicopter on the roof. When they run up there, they see it's just a model that Parker is operating.
Worth arrives at the bank and asks to withdraw all $500,000.
Next, the guards see Nate and Billy getting into a van parked outside; but, when they go out to the van, they find Parker and Hardison inside.
Back in the prison, Detective Bonanno (now walking with a cane after being shot at the end of season 2), drops by. He has footage of Nate in the parking lot, getting into Worth's trunk after getting in the van and climbing out the side door. And then footage at the bank of Nate walking away in Adam Worth's dry-cleaned clothes--which fit perfectly. Bonanno finds this odd since Nate is taller than Worth. He thinks they were accomplices.
Bonanno asks if Worth had a good reason to leave the prison during lockdown. And he mentions that Nate's money was in the bank account. (Flash-back to Sophie telling Nate they used his $250,000.) Worth sputters that Billy was Nate's accomplice, but Bonanno points out that Billy is still right there in the prison. (Hardison put on prison duds to pass for Billy in the security footage with Nate.)
Bonanno shows Worth a list of judges they found in his car. They take him, and the head guard away.
Back at Nate's apartment/HQ, they're preparing to get Nate out of town when they're greeted by a squad of Italians with guns.
Nate chats with the hot chick downstairs in the bar. He knew a third party was involved because their plan relied on Worth finding out Sophie was conning him. And the hot chick took care of that. He doesn't think it was a coincidence that he ended up in a prison with a crooked warden. He thinks it was an audition. She wants him to take down Damian Moreau.
Back in the HQ, the team freaks out about the idea, saying he's the bank for organized crime. The hot chick gives them six months to take him down, and no one will chase him. If not, she threatens the team.
Nate suggests they continue helping people but also take jobs that lead them to Moreau. Nate tries a stab at Sophie's real name, calling out Dominique, Caroline, Raquel. No dice.
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